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Loading... The well at the world's end, volume II : a tale (edition 1970)by William Morris, Lin Carter, Gervasio Gallardo
Work InformationThe Well at the World's End: Volume II by William Morris
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1896 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co. Subjects: English fiction Fiction / Action No library descriptions found. |
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I am not alone in thinking this. C. S. Lewis asked, rhetorically, how one could write a book as good as the title to this one! And he noted that the greatness of the first half is in the yearning and the mystery, while the second half had a humbler cast. And this, he wrote, was almost allegorical in and of itself, for the second half mirrors the first, but after the revelations have happened. And then there is a certain lack of luster, because the dim sight, in glass, is more tantalizing than reality. The book thus is structured as "a mirror of the truth."
The Lewis quote is at the back of this edition, but its full context is given elsewhere. ( )